NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.

Congratulations to the N2Y3 Winners, in order: Ushahidi, KnowMore.org and Social Actions! Continue to show your support for all 21 Featured Projects. Watch conference sessions on Fora.tv's NetSquared Channel.

Projects by Cause

Here you can filter projects by terms in the 'cause' category.

Second Life Relay For Life 07

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

If innovation is your thing, take a real life walkathon and execute it in a virtual world, just for the virtual residents. Raise money for research, increase cancer awareness, and educate participants and that is the Second Life Relay For Life!

ManorMeta

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The living learning lab ManorMeta is a visionary multimedia series sharing problem solving adventures, diverse young leaders, musical stars and AI characters in an amazing mashup for web, virtual worlds, television, film, comics and print media.

Grant Wrangler

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Grant Wrangler is a free grants listing service for teachers, librarians and parents to find funding for schools. Grant seekers and grant givers will use our site to share, communicate and collaborate outside of the application and award process.

Nonprofit Organizations MySpace

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Nonprofit Organizations MySpace is a powerful tool for grassroots mobilization that seeks to create an online global community of 100,000+ social change activists.

NewsTrust

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

NewsTrust.net is a free online social news network that helps people find and share good journalism. Members rate articles based on core journalistic principles such as evidence, fairness and context, and discuss their findings with others.

CoolPeopleCare.org

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Want to change the world, but you don't (think) you have enough time? Visit CoolPeopleCare for ideas on how to make a difference in less than 5 minutes a day. While you're there, connect with like-minded people at nearby nonprofit events.

Building a Community of Modern Abolitionists

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Abolition Central will be home to the growing community of abolitionists fighting modern day slavery. It will combine the best practices of the physical world’s social organizations with the best community building/social networking tools.

Fundraising For The U.S. Veterans

Targeted development for social, economic and gender empowerment

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Selling and deploying software tools to fund a strategy proposal which will leverage funding to deploy further technology yeilding revenue for a major reform of institutional childcare and the seeding of self-help enterprise, to prevent future repet

rabble local

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

rabble local will:
* Further democratize media access and activity in Canada (and beyond)
* Build the capacity of local communities to share information and their
perspectives on issues within and affecting their communities

DonorTrust Technology (ChristmasFuture.org)

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

We are empowering everyday people in North America to participate in eradicating extreme poverty by redirecting one gift at Christmas...and then watch the world change because of the decision they've made to do Christmas differently.

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)

Community Technology centres for children and young adults in low and moderate income communities,Madurai,India

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

This is a digital opportunity initiative for children and young adults in low and moderate income Indian communities.

SElearninggames

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Social entrepreneurs make an elearning game together. Our collective intelligence solves the mystery of nonprofit earned income venture profitability. Game goal: make more real-world money to support social missions.

Uppity Wisconsin - Making Wisconsin Progressive Again

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Uppity Wisconsin is a collaborative news and blogging site for progressive politics in Wisconsin. Our proposal is to add action items, membership database, and to fund further collaboration with other progressive groups.

The Cedar Cultural Center - World Understanding Through Music

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Cedar Cultural Center brings musicians from around the world to the Midwest to provide an exchange of cultures. We propose improving our theming, doing in-house online ticket sales, and adding an on-line member and donation tracking system.

SONGFISH.com

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

SONGFISH, a unique collaboration portal brings artists, writers, specialists, affiliates, professionals and buyers together in an open exchange of products and ideas. It's the entertainment business re-imagined for the age of digital delivery.

FreePledge

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

FreePledge turns every day online shopping into charitable acts, providing nonprofits with an innovative way to raise funds, empowering customers to support their nonprofits at no cost and helping retailers build a social responsible brand.

Point K Learning Center Community Features

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Point K, a free tool for measuring effectiveness in the social sector, serves an online community of 9000 people and 1800 organizations. Net2 support would accelerate the power of our community to collaborate and communicate the impact of their work.

The People, Yes

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The People, Yes is about hitting the streets (shelters, jails and other avenues found on the other side of the digital divide) to find new voices to add flavor to a local community blogosphere.

WHETHEReport: A Global Surprise Anticipation Center

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Before every major global event, people around the world begin having explicit dreams and intuitions about it. WHETHEReport will be a web portal that will aggregate and analyze these dreams to generate maps/scenarios of these potential events.

World's Biggest Problems

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The WBP web portal aggregates, sorts, and classifies information about Climate Change, Water Crisis, Peak Oil, Species Extinction, and Economic Collapse. It also creates a space where people can collectively generate solutions to these issues.

Memorial De Colosio

Making Connections -- Bringing Rural and Urban Students Together

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Our project connects students from urban and rural school districts through a Weblog-based writing space with the goal of creating an online community of learners empathetic to the experiences of others.

My Colorado™

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Rather than seeking a gift from those with means, My Colorado™ offers young people the means to give! My Colorado is a social networking tool engaging young Coloradans in philanthropy and community engagement.

New Independence New Abilities

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Medical Rehabilitation Facility in India for People with Disabilities offering Mobile Units equipped with Remote TeleMedicine&Employment Technologies&latest Assistive&Mobility-Aids Programs&Services&MedicalTeam=RECOVERY

YNPN Information Network

Prevention Communities

Media Saves The Day

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

"Media Saves The Day" aspires to be an online community connecting volunteer creative arts and media talent with non-profits in need of these services, and to inspire schools to incorporate non-profit related projects into their creative courses.

kindbeauty.org

THRONGZ: The Online Discussion Space That Comes and Gets You

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Throngz is a tool that calls people together for discussion from different parts of the Internet in real time. Once you’re brought together into a single cyber-salon, you can discuss topics of mutual interest. Throngz comes and gets you.

NewsCloud Open Source Media Platform (Expanding Access to...)

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

NewsCloud is an open source platform that reduces barriers for community groups integrating news-based social networks into their existing Web sites. NewsCloud seeks funds to make its platform as easy to install and extend as Wikimedia, Drupal, et al

SITI Company's Extended Ensemble

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

SITI believes ensemble theater is an ideal context for bridging virtual and “real” worlds. SITI’s Extended Ensemble (SEE) is an online tool for building and strengthening a collaborative, international community of artists and audiences.

Avatar Action Center

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Avatar Action Center is an educational organization constructed in the virtual world Second Life to raise awareness around sustainability issues and encourage people to take action toward positive change in the real world.

General SocNet for Politics (name TBD)

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

SparkLoop is a politcally focused social networking tool where anyone who cares about democracy - from the barely activated to the committed activist - can go to respond to stories, communicate priorities to elected leaders, and connect with others.

WOW: The Wonder of 'WE'

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Teams stuck in their thinking or limited in their impact can visit a one-of-its-kind web site.  Here team members can engage in self-guided exercises that will refresh their vision regarding how best to grow their impact together and with others.

Village the Game: Play the World of Social Enterprise

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Village is an online world and strategy game designed to get people addicted to third world development. Form a team, build sustainable enterprises that eradicate poverty, and discover the power you have to transform the real world.

Stop Prisoner Rape Information Outreach

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Stop Prisoner Rape is the only U.S. organization exclusively dedicated to combating sexual violence in detention. SPR will create an interactive on-line repository that incorporates first-hand survivor accounts, media coverage, and policy analysis.

SFZERO.ORG

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

SFZero is a free game and online social network that challenges players to complete social, cultural and artistic projects. Our goal is to develop a system that allows anyone to use our model to create powerful, socially relevant games.

Foik Micro-Philanthropy Network

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Foik aims to do to philanthropy what eBay did to the auction house: increase participation by helping people connect with people.

Nonprofit Support Yellow Pages

My MoSoSo

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

My MoSoSo is a free wireless software application that helps people meet virtually and then collaborate in real life to achieve mutual or complementary goals. My MoSoSo users enjoy a sense of community that is unprecedented in human history.

Nonprofit 2020: Issues and Answers for the Next Generation

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

NP2020 will allow emerging leaders to raise their voice on the future of leadership in the nonprofit sector. Open space technology & online communities will help emerging leaders generate ideas & continue to create solutions after the conference.

ChipIn - Scalable, Affordable Distributed Fundraising Tools

The Hub

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Imagine a My Space meets You Tube for human rights - an online destination where global citizens could learn the strategies and access the tools they needed to use their visual documentation of abuses to create community action and change.

buttons of hope "putting a face on fundraising"

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

A place where you can personalize your fundraising by making a single photo button to honor a loved one or support a friend. Photo buttons inspire people to share and spread their powerful stories helping with the hardest part of giving…the asking!

Records Quest

Info Island Brings the Renaissance Era to Its Second Life!

A New Reality - Changing the World one play and one artist at a time

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Race, age, ethnicity, gender or disability don't matter. Artists with talent should work. With us they do and find a home. We mesh artists of all kinds for a new reality in theatre.

Reversed Rural Electrification

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

1.5 billion people spend $38 billion/yr on kerosene lighting, having no electricity. Barefoot Power will help 1 million people access modern, clean electricity, using digital LED lighting and advanced microenterprise-creation freeware.

moulin Wiki - the Offline Wikipedia

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The moulin wiki project is our attempt to improve the access to basic information and reference material in developing countries by making it possible to access Wikipedia, the world’s largest, free encylopedia, offline.

ArtHeart

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

ArtHeart project’s goal is to affect a positive, physical change in the Bulgarian natural environment by stimulating the creation and propagation of digital artwork in order to call attention to Bulgaria’s natural beauty, or its destruction.

Cauzoo- Give. Together.

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Cauzoo is MySpace for charities and users, mixing viral and grassroots marketing to connect folks around common charitable interests. Uniquely, Cauzoo will give charities 100% of the money generated from user donations and affiliate shops.

iMentor - iPower eMentoring Platform

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

An online social network designed exclusively for non-profits, iPower allows any organization to add mentoring to what they do or to enhance their mentoring programs. Now in use with over 1,500 participants, iPower is preparing for national roll-out.

Uddami Computer Training Centre for youth from low income communities in Kolkata, India

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Uddami Computer Training Centre empowers youth from low-income communities in urban Kolkata, India through ICT training so they can develop sustainable livelihoods in the ICT sector.

The CTC VISTA Project

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The CTC VISTA Project—the most popular program in AmeriCorps' online recruitment system—coordinates the recruitment, placement, training, and support of VISTAs (domestic Peace Corps volunteers) in nonprofits using technology to help poor people.

GiveWell: the world's first transparent grantmaker

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Grantmaking with the doors open. Our website will make THOROUGH analysis of charities (the kind now exclusive to foundations) usable to all donors, large and small – and open the dialogue on how best to improve the world to anyone with an opinion.

Hub Software

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Hub Software is free. Installation, if required, is cheap. Update regional human services information with community emailing, build more listings for refferalls -- see MVHub.com for searchability.

Open Community Radio: KRUU-LP 100.1 FM

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

KRUU is community radio attempting to go beyond simply airing content. It is a means for a diverse community to collaborate openly and build a better society through the vehicle of community radio.

Universe-city of Human Unity

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Universe-city of Human Unity facilitates new ways to learn, explore and understand knowledge towards greater realization and awareness of the evolutionary change of consciousness that is reversing our age-old perspective of humanity.

Upper Kirby Citizen Participation Portal

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Upper Kirby Citizen Participation Platform promotes transparency and accountability in local government by utilizing new technologies to allow constituents to directly participate in the decision making process.

The Second Road - an online support community for those in recovery from addiction

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Substance abuse in our country is destroying families and taking lives. The Second Road is an online support community that encourages millions of recovering addicts to stay clean through the use of customizable tools and support from peers.

International Network of Victims of Terrorism and War

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The INVTW seeks to unite victims of political violence, war and terrorism to amplify the voices of victims speaking out for nonviolence and to create grassroots structures which support a culture of peace and common security.

Online Tax Tools and the Earned Income Tax Credit

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

NPower’s EITC Project partners with nonprofits that serve low-income communities to teach their clients how to use technology to calculate EITC eligibility and file tax returns which helps move them out of poverty.

Youreel Video and Web Project

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Your vote gives young people an oportunity to learn professional media production, and provide thousands of ministries with quality digital media.If 200 churches with 400 members  download a students video, 80,000 people will see it.  

Project ABC: Community Literacy in the Bateyes

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Project ABC works in Haitian-Dominican communities of the Dominican Republic establishing community-based literacy programs. ABC utilizes the resources of social web to innovate its programs, build solidarity, and broaden its impact.

GreatNonprofits

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Online "Zagat" guide to nonprofits.

Youth Are Working

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Empower Empower That is our philosophy. Youth Are Working encourages youth at risk to make positive changes in their turbulent lives. These youth are asking us for more training on internet related technologies to help make them more employable

Prevent Human Trafficking using technology to tell stories of empowerment and successful micro philanthropy

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Everyday people can prevent human trafficking! We use digital media to educate and empower by making human-to-human connections, & showcasing amazing, sustainable solutions that anyone can be part of as a new micro-philanthropist or activist.

FelonResources

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

To provide information and resources to formerly incarcerated people to help them become productive, tax-paying members of the community and deflate their burden to society.

Neighbor to Neighbor: Embedding Citizen Journalists

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Neighbor to Neighbor project will embed citizen journalists throughout our city to create media seeking to broaden civic engagement. By utilizing technology in innovative ways, the project has the potential to serve as a model nationwide.

Not Just a Number

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Not Just a Number is a violence prevention, community journalism website, created to give Oakland California a place to share stories, connect and develop solutions for social change.

Low-Cost, Shared GIS Resource for Advocates

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Create an easy to use template and engine that will lower the cost and technological barriers that advocates face in using GIS in their issue activism.

ParkScan.org

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

ParkScan.org is a public portal that empowers San Francisco residents to submit observations to responsible city government agencies regarding maintenance issues that need attention in parks, playgrounds and trails.

The Martus Project - Secure Information Management

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Martus Project – Greek for “witness” - is a free, open source software tool that helps non-technical users in the human rights field capture, backup and protect their most valuable asset: information.

Hooze & Wagn: Organically Grown Public Data on Products and Companies

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Hooze.org and its Wagn underbelly are for collaboratively gathering and broadcasting convenient, trustworthy public data about products and companies. With wiki spirit and database power, Hooze gives citizens a new economic voice.

Central Vibe

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Web 2.0 social networking wireless, tools to link and find new friends using major networks,chat, video and SMS based messaging.An easy to use software suite that charities,churches,villages, and members of the outside can look in.

CommunityGoals - The Online Goal Marketplace

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

CommunityGoals is a goal marketplace. Post a goal, even if you don't know the solution! Small individual contributions are transformed into funded community projects.

freeFormed

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Use your phone, document your life, don't make friends, make circles.

China Digital Times

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

China Digital Times is an uncensored news portal covering China's political and social transformation. CDT uses the power of the Internet to bridge the language and cultural gap and overcome state censorship.

Community-Owned Telecenter Project

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Narrowing the existing digital gap in Malawi through Telecenters

Professionals In Transition CyberChapter Development

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Nearly 15 million US workers are un-, under-, or unhappily employed at any given time. PIT CyberChapters will use the internet’s networking capabilities to help members find employment faster and reduce personal and family trauma.

the REAL hot 100

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The REAL hot 100 is a grassroots media project that recognizes and celebrates young women who are working to make the world a better place and provides the resources and networking necessary to help these remarkable women succeed.

OpenStreetMap

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

OpenStreetMap does for maps what Wikipedia does for Encyclopedias.

Local Issues Forums - E-Democracy.Org's Online Townhalls in US, UK, and now NZ

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The online townhall made real where citizens have a say and make a difference locally.

The Nata Village blog. A unique opportunity to witness the battle to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in an African village

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Nata, Botswana is a village of hope. Donations from the blog:
http://natavillage.org are used to help the 400 orphans, people living with HIV/AIDS, Nata clinic, and a youth group.

Fallout - Bootcamping Progressive Candidates and Serving Local Communities

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

We fast track progressive political candidates and community activists through a well connected network of charitable organizations and non-profits, rapidly building up their political resumes and community exposure.

Access to Markets and Education: Fair Trade Language Tutoring via Webcam (http://www.SpeakShop.com)

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Speak Shop reduces poverty by creating a global marketplace of language tutoring via webcam, linking tutors in developing countries with a world market of learners, forging microentrepreneurs and fostering cross-cultural learning and respect.

HIV Collaborative Fund

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

Shouldn't people living with AIDS be involved in figuring out how AIDS money is spent? We raise the money. People living with HIV/AIDS around the world decide where the money goes through a process relying on social networking and technology.

Open Source Urban Tree Map

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):

The Tree Map project is an open-source, web-based, tree-map that helps community-based tree organizations work with city agencies and the community to track, manage and quantify urban forest data, as well as calculate the environment